Friday 2010-10-22 Dev. update and Discussion

[ElAurens]

In the beginning, SoW will be just like IL2 was on initial release. No one will be able to play it on maximum graphic settings. Then slowly, over time the hardware will catch up, just like it did with the various upgrades of IL2.

And we all remember how ground breaking IL2 looked back then, even on our 1.3 gig Pentiums with 512 of ram and a GF4 Ti 4400.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

In the beginning, SoW will be just like IL2 was on initial release. No one will be able to play it on maximum graphic settings. Then slowly, over time the hardware will catch up, just like it did with the various upgrades of IL2.

My first built PC in 2000 had an Athlon 1000Mhz/1GHz and a Geforce2GTS 64MB. It played IL*2 and FB at 1600x1200 (no anti aliasing, I still don't set anti aliasing). Before that, I had a 486/66, now that had problems running Quake, not that I noticed except that the grenades speeded up considerably on the new machine. I played CFS and CFS2 before I played IL*2, which I probably came to late in its life, but I have no doubts whatever that 2000 ad machine could have played it at full settings from the first if I'd bought IL*2 earlier.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

In the beginning, SoW will be just like IL2 was on initial release. No one will be able to play it on maximum graphic settings. Then slowly, over time the hardware will catch up, just like it did with the various upgrades of IL2.

And we all remember how ground breaking IL2 looked back then, even on our 1.3 gig Pentiums with 512 of ram and a GF4 Ti 4400.

I had an Athalon XP1600 with a Radeon 9000128 card and 512M of RAM.. and it was enough to et me hooked and started on the path to upgrade hell... Truth be told the only reason I haven't upgraded again since my last GPU died is because my current rig Fx-60, GF-260, 4G DDR 400 .. handles this sim fine.. and this is the most intensive thing I do on my PC.